Add a website to Privatus Analytics
Add a website to Privatus Analytics: set its domain, additional domains, timezone and currency, and find the site id for the tracking snippet.
A site is one website you measure. Each site has its own settings,
goals, sharing and data, and a public id like pa_7Q2K9XH3AB that goes in
the tracking snippet.
Watch: Install website analytics in one line (no cookie banner) (2:05)
Install website analytics in one line: an open source tracker you can read, no cookies, no consent tool, and your first visitor on screen in a minute.
Transcript
Do you know what the tracking code on your site actually does? Most people pasted it years ago and have never looked.
I'm James, founder of Privatus Analytics. Give me one minute, and you'll have analytics you can read line by line.
Setting up analytics is supposed to be simple. Then it isn't. There's the tag. Then the tag manager to hold the tag. Then the consent tool, then the banner, then an afternoon making them all talk to each other. When it finally works, a script you've never read runs on every page you own. It can fingerprint devices. It can set cookies that outlast the visit. It can send things you never asked it to send. You're responsible for what it does to your visitors, and you have no idea what that is. And the numbers it gives back are missing everyone who said no to the banner you built for it. A whole afternoon, to end up with a black box and half your data.
With Privatus Analytics, you add your site, copy one line, and paste it in. That's the setup. The line is open source. You can read every bit of what it does, and so can anyone who checks your site. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on the device, and never fingerprints anyone. So there's no consent tool to wire up and no banner to design. Open your dashboard. Your first visitor shows up within seconds, and every visitor after that is counted. WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, or something you built yourself, there's a guide for each. That one line carries everything else too. Goals, events and A/B tests all run on it, so you install once and you're done.
One minute, not an afternoon. A tracker you can read, instead of one you have to trust. And every visitor in your numbers from the first day.
It takes one minute to see what you've been missing. Start free at privatusanalytics.com.
Add one from All sites → Add site, or in the setup guide after you sign up. Adding sites needs the Owner, Admin or Editor role.
Fields#
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Domain | The main hostname, e.g. example.com. Hits from other hostnames are dropped unless you add them as additional domains. Subdomains (www., shop.) of a listed domain are accepted. A workspace can have one site per domain. Different workspaces can add the same domain, each with its own site id and its own data, so a domain that changed hands can be added by its new owner. |
| Name | A display name. Defaults to the domain. |
| Timezone | Where "today" starts and ends in reports. Defaults to the workspace's timezone. Stored data is UTC and the timezone is applied when you query, so you can change it later. |
| Currency | A three-letter code such as USD. The currency revenue is converted to. Defaults to the workspace's currency. The setup guide doesn't ask for it. Change it under Site settings → General. |
Uptime check#
Below the fields is Create uptime check, ticked by default. Leave it ticked and we make an uptime check for the site's home page when you add it. The check starts once the tracking script is found on your site, and the workspace's owners and admins get an email when the site goes down and when it comes back.
The box shows only to owners and admins, and only while your plan has
room for another uptime check. The API and MCP don't make one with the
site: use uptime_checks_create.
More settings, under Site settings → General#
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Week starts on | Monday (the default) or Sunday. |
| Additional domains | Other hostnames that send data to this site, for example a separate checkout domain. One per line or comma separated. |
| Multiple domains | Combined (the default): one visit can cross the site's domains. Separate: the hostname is part of the visit key, so the same visitor on two domains is two visits. The cross-domain troubleshooting page explains the trade-offs. |
| Labels | Comma separated. Filter and group sites by label on the All sites page. |
| Site id | The public id for the tracking snippet, with a copy button. |
Emails after you add a site#
When you add a site, we email you its tracking snippet, together with a prompt you can paste into an AI assistant to have it add the snippet for you. Only the person who added the site gets it.
If the site has still sent nothing, a reminder follows after 3 days and a last one after 7 days. They stop as soon as the first pageview arrives. Every one of these emails has an unsubscribe link, which also stops our other marketing emails.
Plan limits#
The Free plan includes 3 sites. Paid plans have no site limit. All sites share the workspace's monthly event allowance.
Next#
Install the tracker on your site, then verify the installation.